Meanings
- archaicnot comparableTo nowhere; to no place.
Near-synonym: nowhere (sometimes synonymous)
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This stuffed rump of mine saves not me only from rheumatism, but you also from what other isms! In this your Life-pilgrimage Nowhither, a fine Squallacci marching-music, and Gregorian Chant, accompanies you, and the hollow Night of Orcus is well hid!
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.
1869, George MacDonald, The Seaboard ParishOther paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.
1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditionsSynonyms: nowhere
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbTo nowhere; to no place.
Origin
- Old Englishnāhwider
- Middle Englishnowhider
- Englishnowhither
From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither.
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nowhither. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nowhither
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